Chapter 4 The fourth time went straight to the Great Gobi

Hu Tiehua sneered: "You can ignore some people, even if he is angry, he can't do anything to you, but I am not such a person, if I get angry..." Suddenly a head stuck out from the carriage, looked at him and said with a faint smile, "Don't be angry, he can't hear you at all, he's deaf." Hu Tiehua almost rolled off the horse and shouted: "Ji Bingyan, it's you! You dead cock, what tricks are you playing?" It was actually Ji Bingyan in the carriage. He stretched out his hand from the car window, made a gesture, and the team stopped immediately, then he opened the car door and slowly got out of the carriage.

Hu Tiehua became even more mad, and shouted: "Isn't your leg broken? How can you walk again now?" Ji Bingyan didn't seem to hear him at all, but just went up to meet Chu Liuxiang who had just walked over, and Chu Liuxiang also dismounted to meet him. The two looked at each other and smiled, Ji Bingyan said: "I'm here." Chu Liuxiang said: "Very good." Ji Bingyan said: "Because I was preparing to leave the customs, I came a little late." Chu Liuxiang glanced at the team and said with a smile, "You have prepared too much." Ji Bingyan said: "More is better than not enough."

Chu Liuxiang said: "You naturally have more experience than me, I will listen to you." Ji Bingyan said: "You can also rest in the car, can I let you check the equipment tomorrow morning?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Okay." The two of them never mentioned the "broken leg" incident, nor did they mention Banbing and Yingyan, as if these incidents never happened at all. Hu Tiehua had already turned blue with anger, and couldn't help rushing over. Ji Bingyan smiled lightly and said: "There is wine in the car, if you are not drunk, drink a few more glasses!"

Hu Tiehua stared at him for a while, and finally laughed and said: "Okay! Although you have tricked me, I am not very good friends with you. We are now even. After getting in the car, I respect you You three cups." In the carriage, Hu Tiehua understood why Ji Bingyan made the carriage like a coffin, because in this way, the space in the carriage was large. It was no longer like a carriage, but like a house. There is a large and comfortable soft couch in the carriage, a few brocade mats, and a table. Everything has obviously been carefully arranged, so although there are many things, it doesn't look very crowded.

Hu Tiehua just wanted to ask, "Where's the wine?" Ji Bingyan reached out and pressed the edge of the couch, a drawer popped out under the brocade couch, in the drawer were six shiny silver cups, and ten square bottles made of silver. Ji Bingyan said: "There are ten kinds of wine here, ranging from Maotai, Daji, Zhuyeqing, to Guanwai Roquefort. Although the bottle doesn't look big, it can hold three catties or twelve taels. What do you want to drink? Say it!" Hu Tiehua stared at the drawer in a daze, and after a long while, she sighed: "With one flick of the hand, all kinds of wine come. This is the dream of every alcoholic. No wonder people want to get rich. Getting rich is really good. of."

The three drank two glasses of wine, and Hu Tiehua couldn't help but said: "Now if there are prawns from Jiangbei, and Jinhua ham and feet to drink, this place is like heaven, but it's a pity..." Before he could finish his sentence, another drawer popped out from under the brocade mat. There were not only dried shrimps from Jiangbei, ham from Jinhua, but also bad fish from Fuzhou, roast goose from Fuzhou, sea bugs from Haining, meat bones from Wuxi, and ham from Changbai Mountain. Plum blossom bear's paw... In short, as long as you can think of the most delicious appetizers, there are in this drawer.

Hu Tiehua cried out and said, "You are juggling!" Ji Bingyan said lightly: "People have to enjoy while they are alive, especially those who have suffered too much. Once I was so hungry that I wanted to chop off my hand to eat, so now no matter where I am, I always have to fill it up first." The food, even under the bed where I sleep, is full of wine and meat." Hu Tiehua wanted to laugh when she heard it, but when she thought about it carefully, not only did she no longer find it ridiculous, but she wanted to cry. These plain words are really full of sourness and bitterness. When a person is so afraid of "hunger", the hardships and miseries he has suffered before are probably beyond the imagination of others!Hu Tiehua was silent for a long time before drinking the third glass of wine, looking up and sighing: "Maybe I shouldn't have forced you to come here."

Ji Bingyan said coldly: "You didn't force me. If I really don't want to come, no one can force me." Hu Tiehua smiled bitterly, and suddenly asked: "What about the two girls? Why don't you invite them to have a drink too?" Ji Bingyan said: "They have already gone back." Hu Tiehua said: "Why are you rushing to drive them back, Chu Liuxiang and I are very knowledgeable people, we will always find a chance for you to say goodbye to them." Ji Bingyan said lightly: "There is no time to say goodbye now. From now on, we have started to go straight to the Great Gobi. From now on, this carriage will never stop for more than two cups of tea, and it will only stop three times a day. I believe With our current stamina, we can strictly control our bowel movements."

Hu Tiehua suddenly said: "Can't you even get out of the car and walk around?" Ji Bingyan said: "Absolutely not." Hu Tiehua said: "Why?" Ji Bingyan said: "Although we don't know whether the other party has set up hidden cards in various places to detect Chu Liuxiang's whereabouts, we must be on guard against his move." Hu Tiehua said: "But it doesn't have to be..." Ji Bingyan said: "If we want to be successful, we have to take every possibility into account, just because the other party dares to provoke Chu Liuxiang, he is definitely not an ordinary person."

Hu Tiehua said: "Are we already ordinary people?" Ji Bingyan said: "I have already said that these people who grew up in the desert have been tempered by the desert to be more patient than camels, smarter than foxes, and more ruthless than wolves, but we are weaker than us in the desert." A rabbit." Hu Tiehua smiled and said: "You are too ambitious for others, and destroy your own prestige, right?" Ji Bingyan said: "It's just because I don't want to die in the desert, let the vultures suck my body, let the wolves gnaw my bones, I am still alive and very interesting."

Hu Tiehua said: "But I still think..." Ji Bingyan sneered and said, "I don't want to know what you mean, I just want to know, since you want me to come, are you willing to listen to me in everything?" Chu Liuxiang had been listening all the time, and then she smiled and said, "You can bring out so much wealth from the desert alive, and what you say must be reasonable. If it makes sense, I'm always willing to accept it." Ji Bingyan stared at Hu Tiehua and said, "What about you?" Hu Tiehua sighed and said with a wry smile: "I can only say that I shouldn't force you to come. Now that you have come, what else can I do?" Ji Bingyan said: "Good!" He suddenly took all the food and wine off the table, stretched out his hand to press it, and the table turned over completely, and a detailed map was engraved on the back. Ji Bingyan dipped his chopsticks into the wine, drew a line on the map, and said, "We shouldn't have left the customs from here, it's just because you don't know the way and you've come to this place, so now we can only follow this road Walk." Chu Liuxiang asked, "Is this the Yellow River?" Ji Bingyan said: "That's right. This is the upper reaches of the Yellow River. We can walk along the river to Yinchuan. I know that Jamuka's power in the past has never been to the south of Yinshan Mountain. Therefore, we don't have to hope to be able to reach Yinchuan on this section of the road." Get their clues, but you must guard against their eyes and ears." Neither Chu Liuxiang nor Hu Tiehua interrupted him. Ji Bingyan continued: "So, when we arrive at Laolongwan tomorrow, you will deposit the horse. I also have a buddy there, so you can rest assured." Chu Liuxiang couldn't help but said, "I must take this horse with me." Ji Bingyan said: "No way!" Chu Liuxiang said: "Why?" Ji Bingyan said: "Not only is this horse too ostentatious and eye-catching, but it is originally owned by the other party. If we take this horse with us, it is like carrying a signboard. We must not take this risk." Chu Liuxiang thought for a while and stopped talking. Ji Bingyan said: "You have to know that now the opponent is not only waiting for work in secret, but also has taken advantage of the timing, location, and harmony. We don't even have any favorable conditions. If we want to win, we have to use surprise soldiers. Before we find his whereabouts, we must not be discovered by him, otherwise if they take advantage of the desert to attack us secretly, we will die without a place to die." Chu Liuxiang was silent for a while, then sighed: "I didn't think so much, I..." Ji Bingyan said word by word: "You must remember that the other party lures you to the desert precisely because he knows that he cannot kill you in other places. Since he wants to lure you to the desert, it is naturally because he is in the desert. You are sure to kill you, this is the most difficult battle in your life, how can you not think about it?" Chu Liuxiang smiled bitterly and said, "But there are some things that you can't think too much about." Ji Bingyan drank a glass of wine and said: "Okay! Let's not think about anything now, and sleep first. Even if we can't sleep, we must force ourselves to sleep, because we must not waste energy now." The brocade couch was so big that all three of them fell asleep. Holding the wine glass in his hand, Hu Tiehua suddenly smiled and said, "Anyway, the three of us are finally sleeping together again, just like ten years ago... Alas! Those sweet and beautiful old days." Ji Bingyan said coldly: "Those days may not be so good. At that time, we drank sour wine and lay on the wet and cold grass. Now, we have soft and warm beds." Hu Tiehua sighed, shook his head and said: "The days in the past are always beautiful, but it's a pity that you will never understand this kind of thing, because you are neither familiar with customs, but also too realistic and too snobbish, you only know... " He suddenly stopped talking because he realized that Ji Bingyan had fallen asleep. At dusk the next day, we arrived at Laolong Bay. In one of Ji Bingyan's farms, Chu Liuxiang waited to get off the horse. He suddenly realized that he was also reluctant to part with the horse, so he couldn't help murmuring with a wry smile: "Maybe I'm really old, so my heart has become softer and softer." .” The horse, too, neighed. Chu Liuxiang caressed the smooth horse's back, and said with a smile: "You don't want to part with me, do you? Are you afraid that if I leave, I will never come back?" Hu Tiehua, however, seemed very excited. He was inspecting the camels, chariots and horses with Ji Bingyan. He had to look at and ask questions about everything. He already knew that the deaf and dumb big man was called "Stone Camel", but he couldn't figure out how a person's skin could become like this. He also now knows that the young man driving the car is called "Xiao Pan". In fact, this Xiao Pan is no longer a young man, at least in his thirties, but he is born with a baby face. Laughing, no one can lose their temper with him. Hu Tiehua found it more and more interesting, and couldn't help saying: "Xiao Pan, are you thirty-five this year?" Xiao Pan smiled and said, "To tell you the truth, in another month, the villain will be forty-three." Hu Tiehua laughed and said: "Forty-three, it doesn't look like... a person in his forties is still called 'Xiao Pan', you should really be happy." Xiao Pan smiled and said: "Even if the villain lives to be eighty, he will still be called 'Little' Pan, but this is not something to show his face, it is simply embarrassing." Hu Tiehua stared at him and said with a smile: "Since Ji Bingyan brought you here, you must have some special skills. What skills do you have? Show me your hands, okay?" Xiao Pan smiled and said: "The ability of a villain is that he knows nothing and understands nothing. It is not easy for a person to live to more than forty and still have no skills at all. Don't you think so? " Hu Tiehua laughed loudly and said: "You can say this, which shows that your ability is not small." After a long time, he discovered that Xiao Pan not only can talk to people, but also has a special ability. The north and south of the Yangtze River, both sides of the great river, Lingnan in Fujian, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hubei, no matter what dialect he can speak fluently and naturally, just like the people who were born and raised there, no matter what business you do, just rest assured to let him If he does it, even if he closes his eyes, he won't suffer. And that stone camel, although he can't talk to people, can talk to animals—he seems to be able to use a mysterious language to communicate his thoughts with animals. No matter what the donkeys, horses and camels were thinking, he knew everything, and what he wanted these beasts to do, they were actually obedient. Sometimes Hu Tiehua couldn't figure out what method Ji Bingyan used to find such two people, he couldn't help but admire it. Sure enough, the carriage was driving day and night, Xiao Pan and the stone camel didn't seem to have slept at all, but after a few days, Xiao Pan was still in high spirits with a smile on his face, and the stone camel didn't even lower his head . Hu Tiehua couldn't help asking: "Can these two people not sleep?" Ji Bingyan said: "Some people can sleep no matter what they are doing." Hu Tiehua said: "Can you sleep while driving?" Ji Bingyan said: "The horse already knows the way, why can't you sleep while driving?" Hu Tiehua thought for a while and thought again: "That's right! He always sat while driving, but the stone camel not only didn't sit down, he didn't even stand still. Could it be that he can sleep while walking?" Ji Bingyan said lightly: "Exactly." Hu Tiehua laughed and said, "Do you think I'm a three-year-old child?" Ji Bingyan lowered her face and stopped talking. Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "He's not lying to you. Some people can sleep while walking, because although his legs are walking, his spirit is completely relaxed, just like others sleeping." Hu Tiehua laughed and said: "This ability is really not small." Ji Bingyan said coldly: "This ability is not born, but honed. If a person is whipped and walked non-stop for a year, as long as he closes his eyes, he will be whipped." , then even if he walks barefoot in the snow in the future, he can still fall asleep." Hu Tiehua moved and said: "Could it be that the stone camel has suffered such a crime?" Ji Bingyan said: "Yes!" Hu Tiehua sighed, and said again: "But why do others want him to keep walking, and walk for a year?" Ji Bingyan was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Can you see the donkey pulling the mill?" Hu Tiehua said: "I have seen it." Ji Bingyan said slowly: "He was once treated as a donkey, but it was worse than a donkey. Donkeys still have time to rest, but he kept pulling for a whole year." Hu Tiehua couldn't help shivering, and said angrily, "Who is that? Why are you so cruel? Why do you treat him like this?" Ji Bingyan shook her head, but did not speak again. Hu Tiehua could only drink, but he still had some disbelief in his heart, "How can a person sleep while walking?" He was determined to find out. Even though this car was the most comfortable car in the world, Hu Tiehua was almost driven mad by being bored in it all day and all night. He was looking for something to do. So he leaned on the car window, stared wide-eyed, and went to look at the stone camel. He wanted to see how this man could sleep while walking. The stone camel's gray eyes were always staring, staring blankly into the distance, as if he could see some beautiful scenery that others couldn't see. Hu Tiehua paid attention to him all the time, and after a day, he suddenly laughed and said: "What a dead rooster, he was lying to me." Ji Bingyan frowned and said, "Cheat you?" Hu Tiehua said: "He hasn't even closed his eyes, how can he sleep?" Ji Bingyan said: "He doesn't need to close his eyes when he sleeps." Hu Tiehua said: "What is this for?" Ji Bingyan said indifferently: "It's because he is blind." Hu Tiehua jumped up and said, "Blind man? You say this man is not only deaf and dumb, but also blind?" Ji Bingyan kept his mouth shut, he never said it a second time. Hu Tiehua said: "No wonder his eyes look so strange, but... But how can a blind man walk like him? I really can't figure it out." Ji Bingyan said: "The animals beside him are his eyes." Hu Tiehua said: "What if there are no animals around?" Ji Bingyan said: "Then he will try to get one to come." Hu Tiehua laughed and said: "The more you talk, the more mysterious it becomes. He doesn't look like a human, he looks like a beast." Ji Bingyan said: "Sometimes he is a beast at all, because he himself wishes to be a beast. He thinks that being with beasts is much easier than being with people." Hu Tiehua was silent for a long time, and said: "Then why does he do things for you?" Ji Bingyan's mouth closed again, and Hu Tiehua had already seen that he was not only unwilling to answer this sentence, but also unwilling to discuss this matter again. Unexpectedly, after a while, Ji Bingyan actually replied word by word: "That's because I saved his life." Hu Tiehua remained silent for a long time, and sighed: "Then why do you still take such a deaf, dumb and blind person to the desert?" Ji Bingyan said coldly: "Just because he is more useful in the desert than ten people who are neither deaf, dumb, nor blind."